ASX-listed materials company Sunshine Gold (SHN) hosts a large-scale copper-molybdenum system at the Titov property in Ravenswood West. Eight reverse circulation holes were drilled on the property over a length of 1,500 metres, with assay results from the first two holes already available. The company says assay results confirm a massive vein and alteration system with associated pyroxene and chalcopyrite recorded over a wide interval.

Cyclone Metals will soon commence a rare earths gravity survey in the Yalardy region of Western Australia, where an anomaly has come to its attention and is believed by professionals to have rare earth potential.

Protein process may revolutionize the rare earth extraction. A team led by Joseph A. Cotruvo Jr. of Pennsylvania State University and Dan M. Park of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has now developed an alternative process to mine these resources without the need for organic solvents, improving access to rare earth elements (REEs) while helping to avoid industrial waste, according to Chemical & Engineering News.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

China’s domestic tungsten price remained stable on the whole in the week ended on Friday, October 29, 2021 as the market was still in a stalemate. With the country taking action to ensure energy supply and price stability, expectations that the prices of raw and auxiliary materials will fall and stabilize in the market outlook increase, and the tungsten market will gradually return to its normal trend. 

China’s domestic molybdenum market was weak at the beginning of the week affected by the low buying appetite of consumers as well as heavy wait-and-see atmosphere in the market. 

Flynn Gold Ltd will pursue a systematic exploration strategy to continue geological mapping, soil sampling, cost analysis and possible reconnaissance drilling of the tin-tungsten potential of the Cameron Project.

Tungsten West Plc, which owns the vast Hemerdon tungsten mine in Plymouth, has already started stock trading on the London Stock Exchange and said the cash raised will enable it to plan a full restart of mining.

Mount Ridley, a company targeting demand-driven metals in Western Australia, is advancing the exploration of its eponymous project after testing and confirming that rare earth minerals are easy to dissolve. Re-evaluation of 489 composite samples taken from 215 boreholes using aqua regia solution found that under the conditions of the experiment, about 800 parts/million of total rare earth oxides were incorporated into the solution.

Recently, Appia Rare Earths & Uranium announced the discovery of new massive and semi-massive rare earths occurrences at Wilson North, Alces Lake. This follows the interest of China's Zijin Mining in acquiring Appia.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

China’s tungsten powder and tungsten bar prices are unchanged from the previous trading day in the wake of energy supply and power curtailment measures continuing to interfere with the upstream and downstream of the tungsten industry chain.